Michigan Garden Muse

Spring arrives later and proceeds down the garden, forest and farm-field aisles with more gradual, cautious steps in northern Michigan than ...

Appearances can be dangerously deceptive in the garden. Some of the most delicate, pretty little things harbor substances that can easily fe...

Pretty much everyone stopping in the corner EZ Mart for coffee, the village post office for mail, the IGA grocery, agrees it's high time...

How cheering it is, after the big meltdown of a 50-degree day mid-week, to see the garden re-emerge and poke its head out of the disappearin...

Maybe to an observer it looks like a lovely dalliance to collect baskets of fat, ripe tomatoes or snip bouquets of pastel blushing roses, bu...

In the early 1950s, a young German biodynamic farmer/researcher named Maria Thun decided to investigate the legendary belief present in many...

The best, most distinct, most numerous memories of childhood often involve gardens, trees, waterscapes and other natural world phenomena. Fr...

As sub-freezing temperatures lay their cold paws across the landscape and veils of windborne snow course endlessly up hill and down dale, ...

City and town environments can be harsh, monochromatic, fairly lifeless places. When I lived in the city, my favorite aspects of the surroun...

The first 2009 plant catalogue,* from Bluestone Perennials, arrived in the mail, a most welcome sight in these deep winter days with its ja...

When will there be good news? In Michigan especially and in the whole of our beleaguered country, such hard times and daily bad, sad tidings...

A key appurtenance for sanely navigating the long, frozen winter here in the north country is the simple houseplant. The houseplant allows u...